Identifier: wonderfulstoryof01stev (find matches)
Title: The wonderful story of Washington and the meaning of his life for the youth and patriotism of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, C. M. (Charles McClellan), b. 1861
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799
Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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his predecessor, Lord Botetourt,had done and seeming to learn nothing from thatreally well-intentioned mans experiences, Lord Dun-more, the next morning ordered the House of Burg-esses to appear before him in the council chamber. Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House ofBurgesses, he began, I hold in my hand a paper,published by order of your House, conceived in suchterms, as reflect highly upon his Majesty and theParliament of Great Britain, which makes it neces-sary for me to dissolve you, and you are dissolved ac-cordingly. But as before, the assembly did not disperse. Itgathered in a hall where the members unanimouslypassed the most drastic resolutions of defiance, and,what was most significant of all, ordered the Commit-tee of Correspondence to communicate with the va-rious colonies on the expediency of appointing depu-ties to meet annually in a General Congress of Brit-ish America. Every word and deed of Washington, and there isabundance of them on record, shows that he was in
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■Washington and His Cabinet. ANTAGONISMS AND HOSTILITIES 99 full and hearty sympathy with all these sentimentsagainst Great Britain, though he and Lord Dunmore,and their families, mingled frequently in a socialway. Washingtons mind was not one to be swayedby particular instances of pride or profit. The goalbefore him was never obscured by side issues or tem-porary interests. CHAPTER XIGREAT MINDS IN THE GREAT STORM I. SUPPRESSING AMERICANS General Thomas Gage was, in the approachingcrisis, made military commander at Massachusetts,as the man most experienced and able to enforce theParliamentary laws. He had led the advance guardat Braddocks defeat, had married an American girland had lived long in the colonies. It would seemthat he ought to have known well the character ofthe colonists. But, he had already advised the Kingthat, The Americans will be lions only as long asthe English are lambs. The idea still prevails that there is a lamb-cowardalways in the presence of a lion-hero. Ge

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